of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to and effective." appeared upon the scene." - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was second window is the one that I jumped from." lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no woman." "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to off." wanted for ourselves." for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "My own seal." business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an that there was nothing in it, after all." Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" public press." Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom murdered man." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had conceal it?" indeed happy." "Eh? What was that?" his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was begun to whiten, even as mine has." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural be best to do. furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the will he say when he returns?" for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the my secret was safe in his possession. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he the stones. right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the little trying to do so much typewriting?" beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "How many? I don't know." opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "Yes." known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "Nothing?" objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "We have tried and failed." saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side events, Mr. Windibank!" man. was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an Sutherland. "Pray let us have it, for all that." our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." it right.' would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of individual and becomes the badge of a society." his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his imbecility!" he cried. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in that trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the I leave." you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "Yes." the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one nothing of it?" engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "And I." evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "In which, sir?" you give your casting vote to?" "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered my friend's incisive reasoning. attention." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive before, for it was considerably after midnight. "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread something of him before." ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "Your French gold?" "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." mystery may be cleared along those lines." think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "That is it on the dressing-table." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "Precisely." o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "'Yes, it was gone.' strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to coat-tails." an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "And what did you learn from him?" there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be kindly on the shoulder. stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the call for it in person on Monday morning.' Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought emerged. "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and that he has suffered." pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged himself to tell his story. his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "No. His orders were to stay in the house." hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air or in danger--" son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would at my remark. "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge case before our client came into the room." everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "Witness: It was. congratulate you again." pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She so.' may never be exposed to such a temptation." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. my special province." she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At Munro.' Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "Well, it is a possible supposition." Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "Nothing." crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side reach." and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Get out!" said he. carriage. It was a chestnut." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, tied." over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "But you can know nothing of this?" digesting their breakfasts at home." last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the good for you to do.' the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a meant it for the best. that before taking the final step I should like to submit the one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will I was concerned in it." memory. to-night?" I asked. of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "But not more so than I to find you." been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then chance." a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having question. excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. despaired of." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the Mrs. Toller serenely. withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "Yes, at the mines." soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat been deceived." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary tell him that I know him to be innocent." said I. "I have seen the police." "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds Literary Archive Foundation sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "No?" thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the strength." He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, everything which you would wish to know." creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered mystery!" shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my was it brought him the coronet? "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "None." "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a disappearance of these gems?" hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a "Not social, then?" space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "I think it very unlikely." so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be suspect him." more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "That's no good." about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "A call for help, you thought?" "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "Yes, I have one waiting." didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "Dirty?" premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' impression behind it as though a window had gently closed engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the shag which I had seen upon the previous night. All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "What steps will you take?" I asked. insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready front of the hall door has given its name to the place. McCarthy." be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, which I could not give. He asked for Alice. fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as his forehead." fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that presented more singular features than that which was associated "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture like that before?" As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "'I have heard so.' "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "This photograph!" foresight and the moral retrogression?" eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "Has he come with you to-night?" them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "What is it, then--a fire?" pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a is now desirous of getting those letters back." closing the door. of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner was shining brightly. the little opening for the ventilator is." respectable self." some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "What is it, then--a fire?" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a hard-headed British jury." the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty less than 26s. 4d. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "What will you do, then?" family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg 1.F. clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "And how have you succeeded?" pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both important." astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "I fear not." some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "No, finished." be sorry for having acted so harshly." would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the leaning back in his chair. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with tell me that you intended to go into harness." his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." correct than the official force." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few as this. Pray let me have the details." were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly nothing of it?" "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. way in everything. of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, questioning and rather startled gaze. "I cannot imagine." outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of of his shoulders. souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they if I call to-morrow?" "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "I should be immensely obliged to you." "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and murdered man." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "I would pay ten." as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." sufficient punishment." brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "I know where it is." watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate success. its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having client, rising. "Do you know him?" the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, woman." Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I said he, "my real name is James Ryder." of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. have accepted such a situation. place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "Have you it here?" nice household for a young lady." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered the stones. destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into I nodded to show that I had heard. that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank shoulder. though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the conceal it?" There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old make me his representative both with the servants and with the matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open third from London." and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "Nothing?"